Coastal Services Center

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Outreach and Education

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Outreach Materials:
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• Bibliography
• Poster
• Presentations
• Diagrams / Documents

Marine Managed Areas: Best Practices for Boundary Making
This handbook, written by the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) Marine Boundary Working Group and sponsored by the National Marine Protected Areas Center, represents the current best practices for marine boundary delimitation.
Click here to request Handbook

Marine Boundary Bibliography

Follow the link below for a collection of publications pertaining to technical and legal aspects of marine boundary delimitation. Links to full-text electronic versions of many of the publications are provided.
Click here to go to the Outreach Bibliography

Poster - "Determining Marine Boundaries"
Click on the image below to obtain a 36" x 48" (ANSI E) poster in pdf format (2.97 MB).

Marine Boundary Presentations

• "The past, present, and future of U.S. marine boundaries...leading to the development of a comprehensive marine cadastre"
• "National needs for coastal mapping and charting" Presentation by David Feary, NRC Ocean Studies Board
• "Data content for marine boundaries: A case study using the cadastral data content standard for the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary" Presentation by David Stein, PSGS/NOAA Coastal Services Center, and Mitchell Tartt, National Marine Santuary Programs (NMSP)
• "Tidal datums and their applications" Presentation by Stephen Gill, Chief Scientist, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)

Note: The presentations are in Microsoft PowerPoint format (.ppt). If you are using Internet Explorer, the presentations will be launched within your Web browser. If you do not have Microsoft PowerPoint, free viewers can be downloaded from the links below.

PowerPoint Viewer Software

• PowerPoint Viewer for Macintosh (6545 KB)
• PowerPoint Viewer for Windows (1906 KB)

Diagrams and Documents

Legal Descriptions (pdf) - This document summarizes the types of legal descriptions addressed within the Cadastral Data Content Standard.

Shoreline Boundaries Diagram (pdf) - This diagram illustrates shoreline boundaries as defined by different states as well as seaward boundaries (state and federal submerged lands, contiguous zone, territorial seas, exclusive economic zone, etc.)